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Foundation Strategy

Embracing an Ecosystem Approach for Philanthropy

Funders are shifting from being at the center of social change efforts to working in close partnership with the…

Corporate/CSR

Flying through Interference

We believe that corporate changemakers need tools to properly diagnose interference and build enabling conditions for social impact strategies…

Education & Youth
A Coming Out Party for Community Colleges
March 8, 2012
Matt Wilka
Community colleges, long overlooked in U.S. higher education, have finally found the spotlight.
Collective Impact
Roundtables as Backbone Organizations: An Example from Germany
March 7, 2012
FSG
We recently came across the work of the Bürgerstiftung Stuttgart, the Community Foundation of Stuttgart, Germany, which is leveraging the idea of structured ro…
Global Health
Responding To Health Challenges Through Grassroots Mapping
March 7, 2012
Carina Wendel
Innovative community-focused information sharing and mapping techniques have literally exploded in the last years.
Strategic Learning & Evaluation
Beyond Thinking Evaluatively
March 6, 2012
Katelyn Mack
Imagine if every philanthropic organization had a system that helped its leadership, staff, and board answer pressing questions about its strategy; questions s…
Collective Impact
The Essential Intangibles of Collective Impact
February 29, 2012
Fay Hanleybrown
In January, my colleagues and I published Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work to help expand the understanding of collective impact and provide gr…
Global Health
Re-Defining Access: Who’s Responsible?
February 27, 2012
Adeeb Z. Mahmud
Over the last decade, significant investment and effort has been spent developing products to address diseases of the developing world, including malaria, TB, …
Environment Shared Value
Environmental Shared Value Opportunities
February 27, 2012
Chile Hidalgo
There is a natural link between shared value and environmental issues: use less and create money. Reducing energy, materials, or natural resources used in prod…
How Can We Make Systems Work Faster for Early Learning
February 25, 2012
Victor Kuo
Recently, for our project work on early childhood care and education, my FSG colleagues and I reviewed the work of a few, well-regarded projects that have been…
Education & Youth
The Case for Classroom Observations
February 15, 2012
Alex Doty
A recent longitudinal study by economists at Harvard University and Columbia University shows strong teachers create outcomes extending beyond the classroom an…
Collective Impact
Taking Collective Impact to the Next Level
February 14, 2012
Javier Hernandez
FSG released its newest article around the concept of collective impact, Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work a few weeks ago, and we have already …

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